San Jose Sharks (17-16-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights (16-8-10, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Paradise, Nevada; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Vegas Golden Knights aim to end a three-game slide when they play the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
Vegas has a 16-8-10 record overall and a 4-2-4 record in Pacific Division play. The Golden Knights have gone 15-3-6 when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
San Jose has a 4-5-2 record in Pacific Division play and a 17-16-3 record overall. The Sharks have a -15 scoring differential, with 106 total goals scored and 121 allowed.<\/p>\n
The matchup Tuesday is the third time these teams meet this season. The Golden Knights won 4-3 in the previous matchup. Tomas Hertl led the Golden Knights with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pavel Dorofeyev has 15 goals and eight assists for the Golden Knights. Hertl has five goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini has 18 goals and 36 assists for the Sharks. Collin Graf has scored six goals and added three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Golden Knights: 6-2-2, averaging three goals, 5.8 assists, 2.8 penalties and 6.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sharks: 5-5-0, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.6 assists, 2.8 penalties and 5.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Golden Knights: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (17-16-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights (16-8-10, in the Pacific Division) Paradise,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[56841,847,1489,88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-104900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-56841","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}